ZOA Protests Shimon Peres’s Remark Blaming Israel For Palestinian Arab Incitement To Murder
News
February 26, 2006


Peres’s Remark is
Reminiscent of Durban


The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the remark by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres blaming Israeli policies and actions for the Palestinian Arabs’ anti-Jewish incitement.


Peres said at a meeting with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on February 20, 2002, that Israeli policies and actions are what have led to the Palestinian Arabs’ incitement to hate and murder Israelis. This anti-Jewish incitement appears daily in the Palestinian Authority-controlled media, school textbooks, summer camps, officials’ speeches, and religious sermons by PA-appointed clergymen.


ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said:


“It is false and irrational to blame Israel for the Palestinian Arabs’ anti-Jewish incitement, which has been going on for more than a century. Peres’s statement gives comfort to those who promote the murder of Jews and implicitly legitimizes the actions of the haters and killers. It is astonishing that an Israeli minister would be mouthing sentiments that are all too similar to the statements made by the racists and Israel-haters at the Durban Conference last year. Peres’s remark clearly contradicts the positions and official guidelines of the government of Israel, and we expect the prime minister to condemn Peres’s remark and make it clear that what Peres said does not reflect the view of the Israeli government.”




Center for Law & Justice
We work to educate the American public and Congress about legal issues in order to advance the interests of Israel and the Jewish people.
We assist American victims of terrorism in vindicating their rights under the law, and seek to hold terrorists and sponsors of terrorism accountable for their actions.
We fight anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias in the media and on college campuses.
We strive to enforce existing law and also to create new law in order to safeguard the rights of the Jewish people in the United States and Israel.